Deepa Venkatraghvan is a Chartered Accountant and was the Personal Finance editor at web18 (www.moneycontrol.com). She is also the author of the CNBC-TV18 Bestsellers “Everything you ever wanted to know about investing” (which was later updated and released as, “Everything you wanted to know about investing in difficult times”) and “What your financial agent will tell you and why you shouldn’t listen”.
Anita Nair is the author of the bestsellers ‘The Better Man’, ‘Ladies Coupe’ and ‘Mistress’. She has also authored a non-fiction collection ‘Goodnight and God Bless’ published by Penguin in 2008. Her latest book, ‘Lessons in forgetting’ was published by Harper Collins in January 2010. To know Anita more, visit her website http://anitanair.net
It’s the Mother who does the talking here, about her own children and those who came to her and became her own. She tells you she is a Kaleidoscope, one with colourful little pieces that come together to form beautiful patterns. P.R.Viswanathan mixes prose and poetry to talk about the greatness of his motherland, India, tracing her journey over centuries.
Vani Viswanathan talks about how living abroad enabled her to learn more about her home country.
Think Singapore, think clean roads, efficiency, and… fines. So when a Singaporean visited India, what happened? Eugenia Koh, who recently visited Delhi, Agra, Udaipur and Jaipur, shares more about her trip – in typical Singapore style! Text and pictures by Eugenia Koh.
Cricket and India – Need we say more? Inseparable, that’s the word. Anupama Krishnakumar shares some thoughts on the cricket craze in India – what she finds interesting about this phenomenon, inspite of not being a fan of the game.
Hariharan Krishnan is Director, L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy, Chennai, where he also heads the department of direction. Hariharan, who is a graduate from FTII Pune, is the director of the National Award winning Tamil film, ‘Ezhavadhu Manidhan’. He also has many documentaries, children’s films and short features to his credit. Hariharan is a visiting faculty member at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.